Razor Rotors (BTD6)
For other uses, see Razor Rotors (disambiguation).
Razor Rotors
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 Razor Rotor blades rip up Bloons on contact, including Lead and Frozen Bloons.
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| Tower | Heli Pilot — Path 1 — Tier 3 | |
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| XP cost | 2,700 | |
| Cash cost | $1,235 — Easy $1,450 — Medium $1,565 — Hard $1,740 — Impoppable | |
Razor Rotors is the Heli Pilot's path 1 tier 3 upgrade in Bloons TD 6. It grants Heli Pilot a new razor rotor attack, which has the Normal damage type. This attack is a damage aura with a radius of 35 units around the Heli Pilot. It deals 2 damage, has 10 pierce, and has an attack cooldown of 0.45 seconds (0.3 seconds with 
Rapid Razors). Exclusive to this upgrade, the Pursuit targeting option causes this Heli to move closer to the Bloons so it can take advantage of the rotors.
Stats
For a complete list of Heli Pilot stats, see Stats:Heli Pilot (BTD6).
This data was last updated for: version 55.1
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Costs and sell values
Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
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| 3-0-0 | $3,615 | $4,250 | $4,590 | $5,100 | $2,531 | $2,975 | $3,213 | $3,570 |
| 3-1-0 | $3,870 | $4,550 | $4,915 | $5,460 | $2,709 | $3,185 | $3,441 | $3,822 |
| 3-2-0 | $4,380 | $5,150 | $5,565 | $6,180 | $3,066 | $3,605 | $3,896 | $4,326 |
| 3-0-1 | $3,825 | $4,500 | $4,860 | $5,400 | $2,678 | $3,150 | $3,402 | $3,780 |
| 3-0-2 | $4,125 | $4,850 | $5,240 | $5,820 | $2,888 | $3,395 | $3,668 | $4,074 |
Strategy
This section was last updated for: version 56.0
Razor Rotors partially carries early midgame on a variety of non-simultaneous lane maps, cleaning up small amounts of bloons quickly and popping all visible Bloon types. Razor Rotors can fly anywhere on screen, having little trouble on maps with range issues. However, it does still struggle against dense groups of Bloons, and falls off hard on any simultaneous lane map. While Pursuit targeting is not optimal, switching it to Pursuit makes it easy to use, and the modified Patrol Points option lets the Pursuit mode focus one lane at a time.
On Contested Territory, Razor Rotors especially stands out for its reliable popping of all non-Camo types, and Camos with 3-2-0. Thus, Razor Rotors stands out the most on Least Tiers tiles when given support against R43+ Ceramics and R50+ MOABs. On Least Cash, Razor Rotors is an easy choice compared to combinations of cheap T1-T3 towers. It also transitions decently into Apache Dartship, to carry further into the midgame.
In general, 3-0-2 is better for the improved DPS, but 3-2-0 provides innate camo detection and may less struggle on distant alternating maps such as Chutes.
Update history
For a complete list of Heli Pilot changes, see Update history:Heli Pilot (BTD6).
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Lock in Place and Patrol Points no longer immediately prompt to choose target positions and instead have default positions- After changing targeting off of Lock in Place or Patrol Points, changing back returns the target(s) to how it was previously
- "Heli Pilots should no longer cause save files to not load sometimes" (bug fix)
Overall cost increased by $100 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
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Pursuit Razor Rotors has underperformed due to distancing itself far too much, so we increased the range of this attack slightly.
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Rotors: Radius increased ― 33 → 35
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Heli Pilot manages on pursuit far too easily without any need to consider Bigger Jets unless camo or downdraft is required. For more crosspath variety than just ‘camo’ we moved more of the base Heli speed out and back into Bigger Jets with an overall buff to Bigger Jets. This should allow Bigger Jets to scale a little better than other helis through early speed ramping.
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- Movement speed reduced ― 45 → 40
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Razor Rotors doesn’t synergize well with it’s own T2 and is kinda the dunce of T3 Helis
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- Rotors: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
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Previously Razor Rotor’s used to make the heli pursue for a further distance & this caused it to often fail to reach Lead Bloons with the rotor attack that could pop them. This overall seemed like a design flaw so that back-off distance has been moved up to the T4 instead.
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- "Razor Rotor’s Pursuit targeting modified to move closer to the Bloons"
- Heli 'patrol point' markers now visually update immediately after setting new points (bug fix)
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Even with the map-range advantage, rotors are weak compared to any other constant AoE circle like this.
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- Rotors: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.75s → 0.5s (attack speed increased by 50%)
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- Faster Firing now applies to the rotors attack
- Stacks with changes to the rotors's non-crosspathed attack cooldown; overall attack cooldown of this crosspath reduced ― 0.75s → 0.4s
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Pursuit will now interact with Patrol Points in a limited ‘pursuit between points’, with this now you will be able to make your pursuit heli stay on one side on multi-path maps without getting stuck in the middle. Razor Rotors is fairly good now, but it could still justify a little more power given the weaknesses of the expensive upgrades that it builds into.
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- Rotors: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.5s → 0.45s (attack speed increased by 11.11%)
- Stacks with X-X-2 Faster Firing crosspath ― 0.4s → 0.36s
- Patrol Points with Pursuit now acts as a range in which the Heli Pilot can pursue inside, instead of causing the Heli Pilot to move between points constantly
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Some price is moving out from base Heli into the T3s to make progression up through low heli tiers easier, however Downdraft is retaining the current price as a small buff.
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $1,750 → $1,850
- Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
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Is there a way i can convince rohan to edit the update notes post on reddit to add those undocumented heli cost changes
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,850 → $1,450
Gallery
For more Heli Pilot images, see Gallery:Heli Pilot.
Screenshots
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Razor Rotors with no crosspath -
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Razor Rotors with 301 crosspath -
Razor Rotors with 302 crosspath
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In other languages
| Language | Name / Description | Notes | |
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| Arabic | دوارات حلاقة تعمل شفرات الحلاقة الدوارة على تمزيق البالونات بمجرد التلامس، بما في ذلك البالونات الرصاصية والبالونات المتجمدة. |
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| Danish | Knivskarpe Rotorer Knivskarpe rotorer hakker bloons i strimler ved kontakt - herunder også bly-bloons og frosne bloons. |
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| German | Rasier-Rotor Die Rasier-Rotorblätter zerfetzen Bloons bei Berührung, einschließlich Eis- und Blei-Bloons. |
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| Spanish | Rotores afilados Las aspas de los rotores afilados trituran a los bloons cuando los tocan, incluidos los emplomados y los congelados. |
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| Spanish (LA) | Rotores afilados Las aspas de los rotores afilados trituran a los bloons cuando los tocan, incluidos los emplomados y los congelados. |
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| Finnish | Teroitetut roottorit Teroitetut roottorit repivät blooneja osuessaan niihin, mukaan lukien jäätyneet ja lyijybloonit. |
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| French | Rotors rasoirs Les lames de rotors rasoirs déchiquettent les Bloons au contact, y compris les Bloons en plomb et gelés. |
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| Italian | Rotori affilati Appena le pale del Rotore affilato toccano i bloon, inclusi quelli piombo e congelati, li distruggono. |
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| Japanese | 回転剃刀 回転剃刃ブレードが、触れるブルーンを全て引き裂く。鉛と凍結ブルーンも含む。 |
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| Korean | 날카로운 회전자 면도날 회전날개가 납과 얼린 풍선을 포함하여 접촉하는 모든 풍선을 갈갈이 찢습니다. |
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| Dutch | Scheermesrotors Vlijmscherpe rotorbladen verscheuren Bloons bij contact, ook Loden en Bevroren Bloons. |
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| Norwegian | Skarpe rotorer Skarpe rotorer kutter opp bloons når de treffer, inkludert bly-bloons og frosne bloons. |
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| Polish | Obrotowe brzytwy Obrotowe brzytwy rozrywają blony przy dotknięciu, w tym ołowiane i zamrożone. |
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| Portuguese (Brazil) | Lâminas Rotoras Lâminas Rotoras retalham Bloons ao contato, incluindo os de Chumbo e Congelados. |
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| Russian | Бритво-роторы Лезвия бритво-роторов разрывают шары при контакте, включая свинцовые и замороженные шары. |
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| Swedish | Rakbladsvassa Rotorblad Rakbladsvassa rotorblad strimlar sönder Bloons vid kontakt, inklusive Blybloons och frusna Bloons. |
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| Thai | ใบพัดคมมีด ใบพัดคมกริบฉีกทำลายบลูนเมื่อสัมผัส รวมถึงบลูนตะกั่วและบลูนแช่แข็ง |
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| Turkish | Jilet Pervaneler Jilet Pervane bıçaklar, Kurşun ve Donmuş Bloon’lar dahil, temas ettikleri Bloon’ları parçalar. |
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| Chinese (simplified) | 锋利旋翼 锋利旋翼可粉碎碰触到的铅气球和冰冻气球。 |
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| Chinese (traditional) | 剃刀轉子 剃刀轉子刀刃撕裂接觸到的氣球包括鉛和被凍結的氣球。 |
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| This list was last updated for: version 43.1 | |||
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